John Couch Adams—astronomer
Birth
john couch adams (18191892), British astronomer, was born at Lidcot farmhouse, Laneast, Cornwall, on the 5th of June
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John Couch Adams was born in England in 1819.
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Education
John Couch Adams was another graduate of Cambridge, and spent all his life in that university.
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Adams, John Couch→ See also John Adams on Wikipedia, and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer. ADAMS, JOHN (1735-1826), second president of the United States of America, was born on the 30th of October 1735 in what is now the town of Quincy, Massachusetts. His father, a farmer, also named John, was of the fourth generation in descent from Henry Adams, who emigrated from Devonshire, England, to Massachusetts about 1636; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams. Young Adams graduated from Harvard College in 1755, and for a time taught school at Worcester and studied law in the office of Rufus Putnam.
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Work
The Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams, 4to, vol. I (1896), and vol. II (1900), edited by William Grylls Adams and Ralph Allen Sampson, with a memoir by Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher, were published by the Cambridge University Press. The first volume contains his previously published writings; the second those left in manuscript, including the substance of his lectures on the Lunar Theory.
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john couch adams and the discovery of Neptune Fifty years ago, in October 1946, I came up to john's wrestling with the problem of whether to read Natural Sciences or Mathematics. 
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John Couch Adams made many other contributions to our knowledge of astronomy. For example, he studied the Leonid meteor shower and correctly concluded that the shower was the result of a comet passing close to Earth once a year. Adams was a mathematics professor at Cambridge and eventually became director of the Cambridge Observatory. He refused a knighthood offered by Queen Victoria to honor him for his accomplishments. Adams did not want the extra attention nor did he feel he had the money to maintain the lifestyle of a knight. He died in 1892 in Cambridge. Adams and his wife are buried under a 70 foot high granite cross in Cambridge. Three years after his death, he was honored with a memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey.
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John Couch Adams and the Discovery of Neptune , in ‘Occasional Notes of the RAS’, vol.2 33-88, by William Smart. Smart was at Trinity college, Cambridge, then became the first ‘John Couch Adams Astronomer’ of the University of Cambridge, and wrote a textbook on positional astronomy. He was RAS President 1949-51. 1947 John Couch Adams and the Discovery of Neptune Harold Spencer Jones, CUP.
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John Couch Adams and the discovery of Neptune Fifty years ago, in October 1946, I came up to John's wrestling with the problem of whether to read Natural Sciences or Mathematics. ... John Adams was born in 1819 in Cornwall, of farming stock, and from an early age confounded his family and teachers with his mathematical ability. He earned a place at St John's and was awarded a Scholarship. At the end of his undergraduate studies in 1843 he was Senior Wrangler, with more than twice the marks of the Second Wrangler.
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It was "predicted" by John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier who, independently, were able to account for the irregularities in the motion of Uranus by correctly predicting the orbital elements of a trans- Uranian body.
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